From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 06:06:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA4016A4DD; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:06:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (jojo.ms-net.de [84.16.236.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE8443D45; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:06:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (p54A5E1AD.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.225.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.ebusiness-leidinger.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7L5nHNC012424; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:49:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k7L66ibf022299; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:06:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from psbru.cec.eu.int (psbru.cec.eu.int [158.169.131.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:06:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20060821080644.jpqrqeca30oc4ss8@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:06:44 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu References: <44E8A79B.6050702@iXsystems.com> <20060820214715.0897b9de@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20060820214715.0897b9de@it.buh.tecnik93.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.2) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Matt Olander , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: porting the RealPlayer] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:06:43 -0000 Quoting Ion-Mihai Tetcu (from Sun, 20 Aug =20 2006 21:47:15 +0300): > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:19:07 -0700 > Matt Olander wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I met with a developer of the Real Player at Linux World. She says >> they would *love* to port a native version of the Real player to >> FreeBSD. Yay! She even showed me that they have an older FreeBSD dev >> environment set up and are ready to start to try compiling it for >> release after we get it up to date. > > Yay ! Good work :) Now we just need to convince Adobe too... >> We need a couple of FreeBSD experts to assist with >> questions/expertise/feedback to make sure this gets finished ;-) >> Please send me your name/email off list and I'll reply to her with a >> shortlist of who can help them. > > Since it's great to volunteer others ;-) maybe netchild@ (cc'ed) has > time for this ? I don't mind helping out, if time permits. But I'm curious, why did =20 you suggest me? >> -------- Original Message -------- > > [ ... ] > >> Also, we're currently only running nightly builds for the stable >> branch on FreeBSD. Do you think we should be running the current >> branch as well? That's where all the new functionality is going - >> like playlists and Windows Media (ahem.. if you have a license for >> it). Depending on how long porting work takes, FreeBSD may want to >> just skip the currently released player and go for all the new >> technology. > > From our point of view it would be no problem to have both in the Ports > Tree (The second as -devel). This assumes they are willing to offer beta versions for public =20 testing instead of only building it "for personal pleasure". On a somewhat related topic, which FreeBSD build platforms are =20 targeted? 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, -current, i386, amd64, sparc64, ...? Regarding the architecture this is more out of curiosity on my side, =20 but for the FreeBSD versions I'm asking because we have a SoC student =20 working on implementing parts of the new Open Sound System (OSS) API =20 which may provide some benefits to realplayer. This code will first =20 arrive in -current (the SoC is coming to an end, so I will commit this =20 maybe next month... depending upon reviews and tests), but I could try =20 to come up with a patch for 6.x as well. A list of new IOCTLs is at =20 http://wiki.freebsd.org/RyanBeasley/ioctlref. With a patch for 6.x =20 they could check at runtime if the IOCTLs are supported and use the =20 new features if desired (=3D developing software for the features of =20 tomorrow... ;-) ). I also want to MFC some stuff in the sound system =20 (bug fixes and new drivers), so depending on their needs I should do =20 that "soon" or at least provide patches to them. Bye, Alexander. --=20 Mulder: Modell psyched the guy out. He put the whammy on him. Scully: Please explain to me the scientific nature of the =09'whammy'. =09"The X-Files: Pusher" http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137